Flies Quotes

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Jean de La Fontaine)
Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. View quote
Lynne Cheney
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. View quote
William Blake
A closed mouth catches no flies. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. View quote
William Shakespeare
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. View quote
Groucho Marx
Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. View quote
Edward Moore
Look at what we'd kill: Mosquitos and flies. 'Cuz they're pests. Lions and tigers. 'Cuz it's fun! Chickens and pigs. 'Cuz we're hungry. Pheasants and quails. 'Cuz it's fun. And we're hungry. And people. We kill people... 'Cuz they're pests. And it's fun! View quote
George Carlin
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
People are inexterminable -- like flies and bedbugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices -- that's us. View quote
Robert Frost
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies Life 's a short summer, man a flower He diesalas how soon he dies. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The gull sees farthest who flies highest. View quote
Richard Bach
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. View quote
Yasser Arafat
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. View quote
Francis Bacon
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. View quote
Erma Bombeck
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. View quote
Aristotle
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. (Christopher McDougall)
Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Time wears all his locks before, Take thy hold upon his forehead; When he flies he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked. Works adjourn'd have many stays, Long demurs breed new delays. View quote
Robert Southwell
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. View quote
Laurence Sterne
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